The DOJ just released its annual compilation of False Claims Act statistics. Once again, the numbers are sure to raise eyebrows with the DOJ recovering $3.8 billion during FY 2013. It is the fourth consecutive year that the DOJ has recovered in excess of $3 billion….

The Supreme Court ruled the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) does not apply to so-called parens patriae actions. These are lawsuits filed by state attorneys general to recover damages on behalf of their residents for corporate misconduct. The decision, Mississippi v. AU Optronics Corp., is notable because it represents one of the few instances where the ever-increasing rigors of class action treatment have been narrowed, not broadened….

The battle rages on over the constitutionality of the NSA’s bulk collection of phone data disclosed by Edward Snowden. It was only a few weeks ago that DC District Court Judge Richard Leon found in Klayman v. Obama a “substantial likelihood” that the challenged phone surveillance program violates the Fourth Amendment. He could not imagine a more “indiscriminate,” “arbitrary” and “almost-Orwellian” invasion of our privacy. In a decision rendered only eleven days later, however, NY District Court Judge William Pauley III came to the exact opposite conclusion….

Whistleblower Insider recently sat down with Tony Corbo, the senior lobbyist for the food campaign by DC-based public interest group Food & Water Watch, to learn more about the food industry and the issues we all face, but likely do not even know about, every time we choose an apple or a bag of cookies at the supermarket….

So why have no Wall Street executives gone to jail for their role in contributing to the Great Recession? It is a question that just won’t quit. And for good reason. The billion dollar fines keep rolling in from one bank after another. But the titans that run these institutions have not been called to answer for any of their company’s financial misdeeds. One outspoken federal judge in Manhattan, the Honorable Jed Rakoff, speaks his mind on what he thinks is really behind this curious regulatory lapse….

So why can we expect to see so many more Snowdens in our future? The answer lies in how the government is choosing to deal with these kinds of whistleblowers. It seems to think that locking them away for life is the right approach. This, coming from an administration that appreciates the value of whistleblowers, having presided over the largest expansion of whistleblower protections in decades. It just does not consider Snowden the type of whistleblower worth protecting….